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ZML & Movieberry -
07-21-2009, 04:16 PM
I'm a little late commenting on this thread but here goes. First let's deal with ZML.com. I purchased some movies last year until I bought one movie (Bladerunner) which had a couple of problems.
First the movie quality was only fair When the movie was went into dark frames the movie was covered in pixels. Given that Bladerunner is mostly dark anyway parts of the movie were impossible to view. Second, and this is the killer when I burned the movie to dvd it was in Russian. I had to download the movie a second time and then it was in English. I suspect this was an early teething problem. Third, the prices quoted for dvd/HD quality are on par with what you'd pay at a video store so there's no real gain. When you add the cost of bandwidth the good quality selections are MORE expensive than at a video rental store.
As for Movieberry.com I've only just discovered the site and it does have potential. The prices are much more reasonable and the selection is pretty good. Sounds good eh? Well there is a big caveat to all of this. I downloaded a Divx sample of the latest Star Trek movie and the trailer was pretty washed out.
This is clearly a shame because this site has a lot potential. If I was to make a couple of recommendations from an avid movie viewer it would be this.
Have a greater number of better quality movies (better quality Divx, dvd quality and HD movies) not just "standard" quality Divx and iPod quality. Some of us actually want to convert the movies to dvd or put it on a hard drive and watch it on television. I mean for crying out loud, this is a huge sector of the market and Movieberry.com needs to cover this to a better extent than they are doing at the moment.
However, this site is fairly new and I hope the people who run the site provide a much better range of better quality movies. If they do they'll get a lot of money from this movie lover.
[i]"I dont care what people say rock 'n roll is here to stay." Danny and The Juniors
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